[shwoopdiwoop]

I’m in the same boat, also upgraded from the X to 14 Pro just like you. It’s infuriating the amount of alterations it performs without my asking. Also equally infuriating is how buggy the whole camera app has become. Changing lenses uncontrollably, weird glitchy artefacts outside of the main canvas, live photos stutter, the additional “step” it does when showing a photo after it loads which ruins the whole looks. It’s a fall from grace and I don’t understand how Apple thinks it’s acceptable to ship this.

[astrange]

> Changing lenses uncontrollably

Settings > Camera > Macro Control

There are some other cases (like if you have your finger over one camera it might switch) but that’s the really noticeable one. You’ll usually regret changing it though.

[tjfl]

I recently found and bought https://camerapixels.app/ which I love and it seems (to a hobbyist photographer) to give me a lot of control. The exposure and focus bracketing is really neat and pairs up with Affinity Photo 2 (and I'm sure many others). It has replaced the default camera app for me.

[hnarayanan]

This f’n additional step it does kills me every time. Like the first iteration looks really good and then a fraction of a second later I know it’s going to change it and make it look much worse. :( (God those washed our blown out backgrounds.)